Laura Kate Trevelyan was born on 21 August 1968 and is a British-American journalist who worked for the BBC for 30 years.
16 Facts About Laura Trevelyan
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Laura Trevelyan served as an On the Record reporter, United Nations correspondent, and New York correspondent, before anchoring BBC World News America.
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Laura Trevelyan was educated at Parliament Hill School in North London and was a member of her local Air Cadet unit.
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Laura Trevelyan gained a postgraduate diploma in Journalism from the Cardiff School of Journalism in 1991.
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Laura Trevelyan began her career as a general reporter for London Newspaper Group in 1991, on titles including the Hammersmith Chronicle.
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Laura Trevelyan then joined Channel 4 as a researcher on A Week in Politics in 1992.
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Laura Trevelyan moved to the BBC in 1993, initially taking roles as a researcher for Breakfast News and as an assistant producer for Newsnight, before becoming a reporter for On the Record in 1994, where she covered the IRA ceasefire and Northern Ireland peace process.
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In 1998, Laura Trevelyan shifted her focus to political reporting, covering Westminster, the 2001 general election and the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
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Laura Trevelyan was a political correspondent for BBC News from 1999 and was based in London until her move to the US in 2004 to cover the presidential election, which coincided with her husband James Goldston's move to the US, to become a Senior Producer at ABC News in New York, after he left his role at ITV as an executive producer.
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From 2006 to 2009, Laura Trevelyan covered the United Nations, travelling to Darfur, Congo, Burma, and Sri Lanka, and was the first journalist to interview Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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In 2022, after uncovering her family's links to slavery in the Caribbean, Laura Trevelyan made a documentary for the BBC World Service called Grenada: Confronting the past in 2022.
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In March 2023, Laura Trevelyan announced she would be stepping down from her position at the BBC after "thirty incredible years" to become a full-time advocate for reparations for slavery.
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Laura Trevelyan's ancestors owned more than 1,000 slaves spread across six sugar plantations on Grenada, despite never setting foot on the Caribbean island.
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Laura Trevelyan is married to James Goldston, former president of ABC News.
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Live, on the BBC's coverage of the 2016 US Presidential Election, Laura Trevelyan said she was about to become a US citizen; she was sworn in on 9 November, the day after Donald Trump won the presidential race.
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In May 2023, Laura Trevelyan stated that if the Irish government asked her family to pay compensation over the Irish famine they would consider the request, after accepting that her great, great, great-grandfather Sir Charles Laura Trevelyan was among those who "failed their people" while governing Ireland during the famine.